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Election workers check voter's information during Minnesota presidential primary voting Tuesday, March 3, 2020, at St. Cloud State University.
The Voter Participation Center launched the largest voter campaign in its history in 2020, with a goal of registering 1 million voters. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] Ahead of the 2020 election, the group said it was mailing 5.4 million registration forms, including 520,000 in Pennsylvania . [ 49 ]
Employees in Minnesota are allowed time off from work to vote on the morning of Election Day. [2] Minnesota is also one of the first states to adopt same-day registration in the 1970s. Minnesota is known for a politically active citizenry, with populism being a longstanding force among the state's political parties.
The presidential election could have brought significant changes to Minnesota's state government if Vice President Kamala Harris had won. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would become vice president, making lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan the state's first female and Native American governor, and Senate President Bobby Joe Champion lieutenant ...
An analysis of automatic voter registrations through the DMV in Oregon found more than 300 non-citizens had been registered to vote since 2021 — which violates federal law in the US — and at ...
Mailers from the Center for Voter Information have caused concern among recipients. The organization was sent a cease and desist letter by Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown on Oct. 31.
Walz won the election by a comfortable 7.7% margin, narrowly larger than Biden's 7.1% margin in 2020 but smaller than his own previous record of 11.4%. With his win, Walz gave the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party its fourth consecutive gubernatorial victory, the most in the party's history. [ 3 ]
Minnesota had a massive year of voter-access legislation, and the DFL-led chambers just got confirmation that they are one of few states that stepped up in 2023 to make sweeping changes for voters.